Midterm Terms

Question 1

Arcuated

Answer 1

Structure that uses an arch to span an opening.

Question 2

Aristocracy

Answer 2

Government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class.

Question 3

Barque

Answer 3

Greek term for an Egyptian boat.

Question 4

Cella

Answer 4

The inner chamber of a temple

Question 5

Chthonic

Answer 5

Of or relating to the underworld; infernal (chthonic) deities

Question 6

Citadel

Answer 6

A fortress that commands a city.

Question 7

Colonnade

Answer 7

a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure

Question 8

Cosmology

Answer 8

a theory or doctrine describing the natural order of the universe

Question 9

Cult

Answer 9

formal religious veneraHon : worship

Question 10

Divinity

Answer 10

Often capitalized : a divine being: as a : god or goddess

Question 11

Deified

Answer 11

1a : to make a god of b : to take as an object of worship

Question 12

Hieroglyphic

Answer 12

Written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters

Question 13

Hypostyle hall

Answer 13

a large palace room with ceiling held up by columns

Question 14

Locus

Answer 14

a : the place where something is situated or occurs : site, location
b : a center of activity, attention, or concentration

Question 15

Megalith

Answer 15

A huge unrefined historic stone used as monument or building

Question 16

Megaron

Answer 16

A great hall (Mycenaean)

Question 17

Obelisk

Answer 17

an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid

Question 18

Pantheon

Answer 18

A temple dedicated to all the gods.

Question 19

Portico

Answer 19

a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture

Question 20

Pre-Columbian

Answer 20

Before the arrival of Columbus in 1492

Question 21

Propylon

Answer 21

A structure before a gate

Question 22

Pylon

Answer 22

a : a usually massive gateway b : an ancient Egyptian gateway building in a truncated pyramidal form

Question 23

Pyramid

Answer 23

an ancient massive structure found especially in Egypt having typically a square ground plan, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top, and inner sepulchral chambers

Question 24

Ritual

Answer 24

Of or relating to religious rites or ceremonies

Question 25

Sanctuary

Answer 25

A consecrated place

Question 26

Tell

Answer 26

Hill consisting of layered ancient cities.

Question 27

Temenos

Answer 27

a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, holy grove or holy precinct

Question 28

Temple

Answer 28

A building for religious practice

Question 29

Theatrical Space

Answer 29

of or relating to the theater like space for the presentation of plays

Question 30

Theocratic

Answer 30

of a government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

Question 31

Tholos

Answer 31

Tomb, place of burial for dead.

Question 32

Trabeated

Answer 32

designed or constructed with horizontal beams or lintels between columns

Question 33

Trilithon

Answer 33

a structure consisting of two upright stones supporting a horizontal lintel.

Question 34

Urban

Answer 34

of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city

Question 35

Ziggurat

Answer 35

an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top